"It’s sort of a coming-of-age story for my character, but it’s also a week in the life of Orson Welles, this amazing American icon,” Zac tells Time. “There are a lot of tough people in Hollywood, but there’s no one quite like Orson. He was a genius and should forever be remembered like that. I think one of the reasons this movie was so exciting to make was to reveal to everybody how amazing this guy was."
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Set in 1930's New York City, a young aspiring actor (Zac Efron) is thrown into the middle of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre Company on the eve of the opening of Welles' historic staging of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar".
Throughout the exciting and maddening rehearsal process, Efron finds romance with a wordly older woman (Claire Danes), becomes immersed in a creative experience few are afforded, and learns the downside of crossing the imperious, brilliant Orson Welles (newcomer Christian McKay).
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